WarpCopy64 on Macs

By lallafa, on November 6th, 2006

Graham’s WarpCopy64 is *the* tool if you want to copy some of your real c64 disks directly via ethernet to your host. The initial release was windows only, but j0x did a really nice job of porting the host code as a command line tool to linux.

So I thought, why not run this little gem on my MBP (as it is a well-behaved un*x-system, too)…
To sum it up: it works like a charm and is IMHO the best solution for efficient disk transfer currently available! (My second best solution is an MMC64, but there I have to carry the MMC card from one machine to the other…)

Copy on!

The C64 receives the server and launches it. A black screen shows you a startup message. If not then probably your network or IP setup is not correct. You have to use the C64-IP you burned into TFR ROM… 192.168.0.64 is the default. Make sure your Mac has the host address burned into TFR, e.g. 192.168.0.1!

Actually, the warp server allows you to change the C64 IP address by pressing the N key. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on my setup. But simply replacing the IP in the PRG with a hex editor did the job 😉

Now its time to copy a disk. Simply launch mwc, give it the C64 IP and a disk image name to write…
mwc -i <c64-ip> <image>.d64

If all went well, the 1541 comes to live, reads in the disk and the C64 transfers it completely in less than a minute…

Have a look at mwc docs, there is a batch mode in mwc that greatly simplifies the copy of a large number of discs.